Reply #2: I've been preparing now for a couple years...

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I'm glad I started sooner rather than later. You look around you, and everyone pretends like nothing is happening, pretends everything is normal. I wonder, then, if I'm losing it. I've bought land out in the middle of nowhere, I've been stock-piling dry goods, dried fruit, cooking oil, lamp oil, propane, camping supplies, hand tools -- people told me I was nuts.

They don't tell me that anymore.

I think most people see this coming, and they're scared. They won't deal with it until it's on the doorstep, at which point it will be too late.

Prepare now. You don't need to be 'nuts' about it (although time is short), but just try and be methodical.